Ben Lee

Twice Exited, Once Burned Out | Now Guiding Others Back to Balance

📍 Costa Rica🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
VC🌍 Costa Rica
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Dec 2023
Lionheart Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on mitigating civilizational risk. We do this by supporting the wise development of transformative technologies. Our main areas of investment focus are transformative artificial intelligence and frontier mental health technologies.
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Dec 2023
Lionheart Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on mitigating civilizational risk. We do this by supporting the wise development of transformative technologies. Our main areas of investment focus are transformative artificial intelligence and frontier mental health technologies.
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Oct 2022
Bexson Biomedical is a biopharmaceutical company focused on unlocking the potential of new and existing drugs. Bexsons SEVALENT™ technology provides pharmacokinetic solutions across a broad range of therapeutic areas.
Investor
Sep 2022
HouseAccount is the digital accelerator for leading home service brands.
Investor/Coach
Mar 2020
WTD is a world-class Web3 agency providing strategy, consulting, design and development for companies and IPs on diverse and prominent projects: - Web3 + AI entertainment platforms for Hollywood celebrity-backed IPs. - Metaverse SDKs adding Web3 capabilities to Unity3D and Unreal Engine. - NFTs launches for Fortune500 and creators. - DeFi staking dashboard. - Refactor of a cryptocurrency-powered payment platform. - Digital testaments to let your digital assets be inherited when you die. - Bespoke DAO with reputation-based governance based on Game Theory. - NFT marketplaces built from scratch. - Became a Sandbox official IP studio. - Developed a Fortune250 Web3 loyalty platform on Cardano blockchain. - Incubated an EVM white label Web3 solution for enterprise loyalty, entertainment and sports. - Private testnet environments for EVM-compatible networks. - Launched 3D games with leaderboards and $token rewards. - Asset-backed Tokens with Shopify integration. - Bespoke Discord bot and role center website. - Collaborated on many Outlier Ventures and Animoca Brands startups. We take your big ideas from inception to launch, helping you every step of the way. In which capacities would you like us to help you? 1. Strategy Services Our proprietary processes and workshops turn your concept into execution-ready blueprints. 2. Build-as-a-Service on-demand squads. You prioritize the features of your product that well estimate, design, develop, and release on a regular basis. The WTD squad will work on your project as each role is needed, billing only for that time instead of full/part-time. This keeps incentives aligned, removes friction, and is much more flexible. 3. 3NNOVA White-Label Loyalty Fueled by NFT Passports WTDs incubated solution allows you to quickly customize and deliver 100% owned Web3 experiences for a fraction of what it would cost to build from scratch. www.3nnova.com
Investor and Advisor
2020
Pair Dental matches traveling dental specialists with practice owners looking to bring specialty services in-house. Our team of experts specialize in creating long-term, profitable partnerships between providers, so that you can focus on what matters most — patient care. Click the link below to learn more and schedule a call with a member of our team.
Investor and Advisor
2020
Travel search is good for finding great prices and reviews, but it sucks at discovering how a place will make us feel. Isnt that the reason we travel in the first place? Suitcase is an app that brings you the heart & soul of destinations directly to your device, using incredible music, video and visual story-telling. Each Suitcase location is made up of an inspiring mix of original content, content from your favorite artists and from users like you, all in a revolutionary map called a Soul Map. When you open a Suitcase, you open a world of diverse and engaging perspectives. enabling you to experience the heart & soul of a destination like never before. Welcome to Soul Travel!
Investor
2014
Salted is a platform for scaling tomorrow's restaurant brands. We believe the future of restaurants doesn’t look anything like what we see today. The most successful brands will exist outside four walls and will develop loyal customers through technology and exceptional, multi-channel food experiences. For more information, please visit: hellosalted.com.
Managing Partner and Investor [exited]
May 2008
Our commercial kitchen rental service provides a fully equipped, professional kitchen space for food entrepreneurs, caterers, chefs, and small food businesses to prepare and cook their products without the overhead costs of setting up their own facility.
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2023
Investor
Dec 2023
Lionheart Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on mitigating civilizational risk. We do this by supporting the wise development of transformative technologies. Our main areas of investment focus are transformative artificial intelligence and frontier mental health technologies.
Investor
Dec 2023
Lionheart Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on mitigating civilizational risk. We do this by supporting the wise development of transformative technologies. Our main areas of investment focus are transformative artificial intelligence and frontier mental health technologies.
Senior Partner
Mar 2023
We do one thing and we do it better than anyone else: help great technology companies capture extraordinary financial outcomes for their founders and investors through our unmatched M&A and private capital raise expertise. If you are a founder, CEO/CFO, or VC looking to turbo charge your company, or any other creator of a better future, our team can successfully execute upon your goals. Focus areas include AI/Artificial Intelligence (longstanding practice), Software, Mobility/Transportation, Consumer Internet, Health Care IT, FoodTech, AdTech/Marketing Tech, FinTech/Web 3.0, GovTech, and Prop Tech. Contact us to see how we help you achieve an Ignatious outcome. You can reach our Founder and Managing Partner, Storm Duncan, directly at: Storm@Ignatious.com Securities offered through Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA / SIPC. Ignatious Growth Capital and Advisory and Finalis Securities LLC are separate, unaffiliated entities.
2022
Investor
Oct 2022
Bexson Biomedical is a biopharmaceutical company focused on unlocking the potential of new and existing drugs. Bexsons SEVALENT™ technology provides pharmacokinetic solutions across a broad range of therapeutic areas.
Investor
Sep 2022
HouseAccount is the digital accelerator for leading home service brands.
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